On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 08:51 -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> So, for debugging purposes (long story) I want to create a couple of
> files which are precisely 
> 
> 1042808832
> 
> bytes long.  We were musing about optimal ways to do this.

Well, if you really don't care about the contents of the files:

touch a b

then compile and run this:

#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

int main() {
   truncate("a", 1042808832);
   truncate("b", 1042808832);

   return 0;
}


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Edward Allcutt <[log in to unmask]>